Finally did it! Today I finally managed to add the little Facebook and Twitter widgets and get them to align just right. Above (at the…
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Canadian band Arcade Fire just won Best Album of the Year at the 53rd Grammy Awards for The Suburbs. While it may seem surprising that…
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ICE Train View (Berlin – Hamburg) – In A Berlin Minute (Week 41)
I LOVE to travel. And I mean the actual movement from point A to point B. I’m a huge fan of road trips. But there’s…
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“In A Berlin Minute” now on Facebook
Yesterday I finally created a Facebook Page for my weekly web series “In A Berlin Minute”. I debated for a while if I really needed…
View More “In A Berlin Minute” now on FacebookJonathan Franzen – Freedom
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen My rating: 4 of 5 stars While I was reading “Freedom” by Jonathan Franzen, I kept thinking of the dream of…
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“The King is Dead”, the new album by Oregon band The Decemberists has been pretty much playing non-stop since I bought it last week. Unfortunately…
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Urban Birds – In A Berlin Minute (Week 40)
Birds, birds, birds. Berlin is full of them. They’re eating, fighting, mating, sleeping – like all Berliners. They just don’t have to go to work,…
View More Urban Birds – In A Berlin Minute (Week 40)Steven Levitt + Stephen Dubner – “Freakonomics”
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m fully aware how late…
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Could hardly wait for this Monday to come around to share this excellent song and video: Lykke Li with “I Follow Rivers”. The video, directed…
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Hipstamatic – In A Berlin Minute (Week 39)
Hipstamatic was declared one of the iPhone apps of the year 2010. It instantly adds effects to digital iPhone photos to make them look like…
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With all the tough girls and the mysterious girls and the sex-you-up girls, I thought it’d be nice to feature a few cute, or even…
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Tacheles – In A Berlin Minute (Week 38)
A few days ago a guy* I know in Philadelphia (US) posted on Facebook an article from a UK paper about Tacheles, an art collective…
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MusicMonday: Favorite Songs of 2010
This is the last time, I’ll milk some of these songs for a Music Monday posting. Out of the 90 songs I had collected for…
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Maueropfer / Wall Victims – In A Berlin Minute (Week 37)
From 1961 until 1989 at least 136 people died directly because of the Berlin Wall and border area. These people are referred to as “Todesopfer…
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Just got through a rather intense work phase and now could really use a good night of dancing. But because I’m too tired to go…
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Praha – Prague – In A Berlin Minute (Week 36)
For our fifteenth (15th!!!) wedding anniversary Scott and I went on a super-spontaneous super-short 24-hour trip to Prague, where neither of us had been before.…
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